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Автор: Jonson Ben
Название: The Alchemist
ISBN: 9780464077794
Издательство: Blurb
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ISBN-10: 0464077796
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 258
Вес: 0.35 кг.
Дата издания: 17.07.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 14
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the Kings Men, it is generally considered Jonsons best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge considered it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature. The plays clever fulfilment of the classical unities and vivid depiction of human folly have made it one of the few Renaissance plays (except the works of Shakespeare) with a continuing life on stage (except for a period of neglect during the Victorian era) An outbreak of plague in London forces a gentleman, Lovewit, to flee temporarily to the country, leaving his house under the sole charge of his butler, Jeremy. Jeremy uses the opportunity given to him to use the house as the headquarters for fraudulent acts. He transforms himself into Captain Face, and enlists the aid of Subtle, a fellow conman, and Dol Common, a prostitute. The play opens with a violent argument between Subtle and Face concerning the division of the riches which they have, and will continue to gather. Face threatens to have an engraving made of Subtle with a face worse than that of the notorious highwayman Gamaliel Ratsey. Dol breaks the pair apart and reasons with them that they must work as a team if they are to succeed. Their first customer is Dapper, a lawyers clerk who wishes Subtle to use his supposed necromantic skills to summon a familiar or spirit to help in his gambling ambitions. The tripartite suggest that Dapper may win favour with the Queen of Fairy, but he must subject himself to humiliating rituals in order for her to help him. Their second gull is Drugger, a tobacconist, who is keen to establish a profitable business. After this, a wealthy nobleman, Sir Epicure Mammon, arrives, expressing the desire to gain himself the philosophers stone, which he believes will bring him huge material and spiritual wealth. He is accompanied by Surly, a sceptic and debunker of the whole idea of alchemy.

The Alchemist, Jonson Ben